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Mary was raised by Alexander and Eliza Taillon Pigeon. According to Rebea Seyeau, her daughter, Mary was Irish in ancestry. I believe her father was Irish, but I think her mother may have been Native American. Her father died before she was born. He worked as a carpenter. He fell off a roof, possibly in Trout River, NY, and died. Louise, his wife, was working as a domestic. She kept Mary for about 6 months, then gave her to Alexander and Eliza Tyo Pigeon to raise. Apparently there was no further contact between Louise and her daughter Mary. I have not been able to find any records of Patrick Hassett or of Louise Jackson, or what the connection was with the Pigeons.

Sometime before 1897, Mary met Edward Lalonde, her future husband at the Williamstown Fair. There was an old custom if a boy liked a girl, he would drop his handkerchief near her. If the girl was interested, she would pick it up. Rebea recently (2002) gave the silk handkerchief that brought her parents together to her granddaughter.

Mary was blind in her later years.